July/August 2013
The “July/August 2013” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 15, 2013.
Critics Page
RE: Re-
– By Marcia E. VetrocqBern 1969 /Venice 2013
– By Keith SonnierPLACES WITH A PAST
New Site-Specific Art in Charleston Belongs to its Place and Time– By Michael BrensonRecollection of an "Incident"
– By Maria Elena GonzálezANTONIO MANUEL: I WANT TO ACT, NOT REPRESENT!
The Re-Enactment of Historical Works from the Late 1960s and Early 1970s– By Claudia CalirmanRe: From LAWRENCE WEINER STUDIO
– By Lawrence WeinerReinstallation and the Real
– By Caroline A. Jones
Local
Welcome Back, Spitzer?
– By Ari PaulThe Wages of Dignity
– By Eleanor J. BaderMike's Labor Legacy
– By John SuricoSeaside Stories
– By Saskia KahnViva Menchaca?
– By Theodore HammVice Squad Targets Williamsburg
– By Ari PaulWeiner's Most Dangerous Fetish?
– By Theodore HammUnlikely Sparks in Brooklyn D.A.'s Race
– By Theodore HammBill de Blasio, John Liu, and the 99%
– By Theodore Hamm
Express
Among the Multitude: A Report from Brazil
– By Ricardo Kaminski and Luciana ChermontThe Manifesto of the Whistleblower Defense League
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsNO COUNTRY FOR DICKHEADS
DERIC LOSTUTTER with Theodore HammOCCUPY TAKSIM
BENGI AKBULUT with Robert S. EshelmanA Pack of Damn Lies
– By Matt IgoeMoral Monday Movement Marches On
– By Alex Kotch
Art
LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER with Greg Lindquist & Charles Schultz
CONSTANCE LEWALLEN with Phong Bui
RAFAEL FERRER with Barry Schwabsky
THE LIBRARY FOR NON-AMNESIACS
A Possible Reading of Matthew Barney's Drawings– By Thyrza Nichols GoodeveRAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN with Joan Waltemath
Worlds With Us
– By Katy SiegelStudio in a School Teams Up with Mark Di Suvero
SUMMER READING LIST
History and Memory: The Velocity of ExtinctionARSHILE GORKY
"An Artist of the Earth."1– By Irving SandlerREMEMBERING
Jene Highstein
(1942 – 2013)– By Richard NonasREMEMBERING
Sarah Charlesworth
(1947-2013)– By Charles Traub and Matthew C. Lange
ArtSeen
Street
– By Joshua K. LeonANTHONY PEARSON
– By Taney RonigerJANE FREILICHER Painter Among Poets
– By David RhodesDENNIS CONGDON
– By William CorwinGravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
– By Desi GonzalezRETO PULFER Zustandseffekte
– By Matthew Shen GoodmanGEDI SIBONY
– By Pac PobricJULIE MEHRETU Liminal Squared
– By Grant Klarich JohnsonJO BAER
– By David RhodesTraylor in Motion: Wonders from New York Collections and Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
– By Alana Shilling-JanoffKEITH HARING The political Line
– By Mara HobermanSubliming Vessel: The Drawings of MATTHEW BARNEY
– By Ann McCoySUSAN BEE Criss Cross: New Paintings
– By Alexander ShulanTOM SHANNON Nothing
– By Darren JonesCARL PALAZZOLO New Paintings
– By Robert BerlindJOE BRADLEY Lotus Beaters
– By Gail Victoria Braddock QuagliataLIU ZHENG Dream Shock
– By Jonathan GoodmanMushroom Hunter
– By Jessica HolmesVanishing Point
– By Collin Sundtdo it (outside)
– By Kara L. RooneyJASON MIDDLEBROOK My Landscape
– By Jessica HolmesSUSPENDED TURNS
On Philip Taaffe's "Sardica II" (2013)– By Jarrett EarnestRICHARD SERRA Early Work
– By Terry R. MyersG.T. PELLIZZI The Red and the Black
– By Margaret GrahamNANCY LUPO Hats & Balls
– By Chloé Rossetti"JACK... JACK... JACK..."
Jack Goldstein X 10,000– By Rachael M. WilsonCai Jin: Return to the Source
– By Jonathan Goodman
Books
A Literary Thriller with Legs
– By Orli Van MourikInscriptions for Headstones
– By Matthew DaddonaDystopia, with Dancing
– By Charlene AllenPortrait of the Artists
– By Leigh Kamping-CarderThe Morality of Money
– By Weston CutterPick a Card
– By Pablo MedinaApples & Oranges
– By Allen Guy WilcoxStoried History
– By Greg RyanThe Prisoner's Journal
– By Sara FreemanWith Kings and Camp Counselors
– By John DominiOnce Bitten
– By Sarah Nicole Smetana
Music
TEN YEARS OF DUST-TO-DIGITAL: The Ongoing Mission of Moses Asch
– By Christopher NelsonOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyNOT QUITE DYING
David Bowie: The Next Day– By Todd SimmonsTRIXIE WHITLEY's Dot Odyssey
– By KK Kozik
Dance
Father/Figure
– By Nancy Dalva
Film
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER with Joshua Sperling
The Act of Killing opens July 19 at the Landmark Sunshine CinemaTIME AND THE CITY
Jem Cohen's Museum Hours– By Paul DallasDESIGN FOR LIVING
Matías Piñeiro and the Art of Seduction– By Leo GoldsmithPETER KUBELKA with Andrew Lampert, Part 2
MARGARETHE VON TROTTA with Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker
Theater
Change Story, Change Life
Service and Solace Where Arts Meet Need– By Larissa LuryA Scary and a Beautiful Place
Lucy Thurber's Hill Town Plays– By Mark SchultzLooking for Some Bulk After Hours in East WillyB?
Theater Artists Take on the Web Series– By Matthew Paul OlmosPainful Intimacy
Daniel Pearle's A Kid Like Jake– By Mark Armstrong
Fiction
Drink and Time in Dublin
– By Flann O'Brien (Myles na Gopaleen)When the Time Comes
– By Josef WinklerShakespeare
– By Robin HirschQuarry
– By Robert Landonexcerpt from The Raw Edge - Issue 01
– By Devin ClarkArrowschmitt
– By Arryan DecaturTragic Strip
– By T. Motleyextracts from The Art of Joy
– By Goliarda Sapienza, translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel, out now on FSG
Poetry
Four
– By Seth AbramsonFive
– By Shane AllisonSummer Journal [2012]
– By Stacy SzymaszekWe Do The Polis / In Different Voices
– By David Buuck
Art Books
Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas
– By Corina Larkin2013?: A Doomsday Day Planner
– By Miles KleeGarry Winogrand
– By Adam Bell